Don't let the worst people you know dictate your behavior.

When you need to stop an asteroid, you get Superman. When you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But when you need to end a war, you get Wonder Woman.

Keep faith, trust to love, fight with honor, but fight to win.

I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work.

I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox, somehow.

Being a bad writer a thousand times first.

Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes.

If loss makes you doubt your belief in justice, then you never truly believed in justice at all.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead? It was unrealistic to expect a friendship to last forever…

For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have here because of the high priority this rates in terms of terrorist interests.

Habit is the daily battleground of character

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

I do not like to "interest" the public with myself.

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

When my youngest daughter got married, I designed her wedding dress and I really let my imagination and energy go crazy! All the journalists seemed to love that dress.